Home Quarantine Guideline for Home Confinee

Home Arrangement
• Home confinee should stay in a well-ventilated single room if possible.
• Family memb_ers should stay in different rooms if possible.
• Keep a distance from another person as much as possible (at least 1 meter).
• Do not share towels or personal items. Use serving chopsticks and spoons at
meal times. Do not share lunch boxes or.drinks.
• Do not smoke.

Maintain good personal hygiene

• Avoid touching your eyes, mouth and nose.
• Keep hands clean at all times. Perform hand hygiene frequently, especially before
touching your eyes, mouth or nose, before handling food or eating, after going to
toilet, or when hands are contaminated by respiratory secretion after coughing or
sneezing.
• Wash hands with liquid soap and water, and rub for at least 20 seconds. Then
. rinse with water and dry with a disposable paper towel.
• When hands are not visibly soiled, performing hand hygiene with 70 to 80%
alcohol-based handrub is an effective alternative.
• Cover your nose and mouth with tissue paper when sneezing or coughing. Use
tissue paper to hold your spit. Dispose of the soiled tissues into a lidded rubbish
bin, and then wash hands thoroughly.
• Close the toilet lid and flush after use.

Maintain good environmental hygiene

• Maintain good indoor ventilation.
• Home should be cleaned thoroughly at least once per week with 1 in 99 diluted
household bleach (mixing 10 ml of bleach containing 5.25% sodium hypochlorite
with 990 ml of water), leave for 15-30 minutes and then rinse with water. For
metallic surface, disinfect with 70% alcohol.
• If places are contaminated by respiratory secretions, vomitus or excreta, clean up
the visible matter. Then disinfect the surface and the neighbouring area with
appropriate disinfectant. For non-metallic surface, disinfect with 1 in 49 diluted
household bleach (mixture of 10ml of household bleach contai�ing
5.25%hypochlorite solution with 490ml of water.), leave for 15 - 30 minutes, and
then rinsewith water. For metallic surface, disinfect with 70% alcohol.
• Maintain drainage pipes properly and regularly (about once a week) pour about
half a li_tre of water into each drain outlet (U-traps}, to ensure environmental
hygiene. For details, please refer
tohttps://www.chp.gov. h k/files/pdf/make_sure_the_trap_is_not_dry.pdf
• In case no family members or friends could help to dispose waste, wrap your
waste properly for door-to-door collection by government staff.